Photos: Dotcom launches new file-sharing site

Guns, models and 'choppers ring in Mega.co.nz.

Kim Dotcom, founder of the outlawed Megaupload.com, has a new file-sharing website dubbed Mega.co.nz. The new storage site was launched on Sunday at the Internet entrepreneur's $30 million Coatesville mansion in Auckland. The bombastic event included abseiling cops, models in military fetish gear and even an 'FBI' helicopter. [Photo credit: Getty Images]

Fake police in SWAT uniforms stalked the mansion grounds throughout the event; a sly dig at US authorities for shutting down Megaupload and charging Kim Dotcom with online piracy. [Photo credit: Getty Images]

A pair of fake police briefly break character for a photo op. [Photo credit: Getty Images]

The launch was packed with media, guests and performers. The German national, who also goes by Kim Schmitz, is expecting the new site to attract a lot of interest. "I would be surprised if we had less than one million users [in the first month]," Dotcom said at the event. [Photo credit: Getty Images]

The police impersonators kept a close eye on the guests. [Photo credit: Getty Images]

New Zealand musician Tiki Tane sang for the crowd with a group of cultural performers. [Photo credit: Getty Images]

We're not sure what the air force has to do with a file-sharing website. [Photo credit: Getty Images]

Dotcom said the new site was fundamentally different to Megaupload, as it enables uploaders of a file to control which users can access it. (Its predecessor allowed all users to search the files of other users, some of which authorities allege to have contained copyrighted content.) Each file will also be issued a decryption key which only the file holder will control. "Even if we wanted to, we can't go into your file and snoop and see what you have in there," Dotcom said. [Photo credit: Getty Images]

"This is not some kind of finger to the US government or to Hollywood," Dotcom said at the event. "Legally, there's just nothing there that could be used to shut us down. This site is just as legitimate and has the right to exist as Dropbox, Boxnet and other competitors." [Photo credit: Getty Images]

Kim Dotcom and three of his colleagues currently await extradition from New Zealand to the United States to face charges of online piracy. Dotcom could face jail time if found guilty. [Photo credit: Getty Images]

Kim Dotcom, founder of the outlawed Megaupload.com, has a new file-sharing website dubbed Mega.co.nz. The new storage site was launched on Sunday at the Internet entrepreneur's $30 million Coatesville mansion in Auckland. The bombastic event included abseiling cops, models in military fetish gear and even an 'FBI' helicopter. [Photo credit: Getty Images]

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